You and your roommate do a genetic analysis and learn that you share the same maternal ancestor 15,000 years ago in Europe. Which genetic material did you analyze to get this answer?

Mitochondrial DNA.

Explanation:

Mitochondria is known as the power house of the cell and one of the important organelle responsible for the production of energy. Mitochondria contains its own DNA.

To understand the maternal ancestor history, the mitochondria DNA  must be studied. The mitochondria is solely obtained from the mother as the egg contains large amount of cytoplasm that contains mitochondria. The mitochondria can never be inherited from paternal origin as the sperm contains few amount of cytoplasm and mitochondria.

Thus, the answer is mitochondrial DNA.

hey, i believe your answer would be d. sugar ribose and the base uracil. i believe this is the answer, because rna consists of sugar ribose, adenine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil.

your first option is incorrect, because that's dna. where it consists of sugar deoxyribose, adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine.

your second option is also incorrect, this is because sugar deoxyribose is in dna, and uracil is in rna. these two do not make sense together.

your third option being incorrect, because sugar ribose is in rna, but not the base of thymine. rna consists of uracil, not thymine.

lastly your fourth option being correct! this answer is correct, because both sugar ribose, and the base uracil are in rna! ~

answer is d. sugar ribose and the base uracil.